Cost effectiveness analysis of specific cases–To provide further information about the competitiveness of MAR compared with other techniques

Analysis of CBAs from specific cases–To provide further insights on the value and benefits of MAR

How to contribute

Volunteers are needed to furnish financial and economic information on MAR schemes to enable robust and locally relevant data and information. This information may also be useful to MAR for Sustainable Development Working Group, and selected data may be mounted on the Global MAR Inventory site. Many thanks to Koen Zuurbier, David Pyne, Peter Dillon, Bob Bower, Tim Gorey, Gabriel de los Cobos, Adam Hutchinson and Cornelius Sandhu for supplying data and to others who have promised data. Please contact Andrew Ross a.ross@anu.edu.au if you can help.

The discussion in Beijing suggested two initial priorities for work by the group;

development of a standard framework and measures for accounting the costs (and benefits) of aquifer storage and recovery. The (levelised) unit cost of water is one appropriate measure for comparing alternative sources of regular water supply, whereas the unit cost of recovery capacity is a measure for a reserve supply that is only used occasionally; and

compilation of a set of case studies that include financial and economic analysis of aquifer storage and recovery.

Following ISMAR 8 Sharon Megdal University of Arizona, Tucson, USA and Peter Dillon, CSIRO, Australia, edited a thematic issue of the open access MDPI Journal Water entitled Policy and Economics of Managed Aquifer Recharge and Water Banking. Fourteen papers, most of which were presented at ISMAR9 may be downloaded, and are also available as a book from the MDPI Water website.